Who Is Tim Cook

Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook is joining the roster of the very rich who are giving away their wealth. Fortune magazine cited the head of the world's largest technology corporation as saying he planned to donate his estimated US$785 million (RM2.88 billion) fortune to charity – after paying for his 10-year-old nephew's college education.

The 54-year-old CEO's revelation in Fortune's lengthy profile of him is an example of the increasingly public philanthropy of the world's richest people. Billionaire financier Warren Buffett is encouraging the very wealthy to give away at least half their worth in their lifetimes through the Giving Pledge," whose website lists such luminaries as Microsoft Corp's Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook Inc and Oracle Corp's Larry Ellison.